fivesome

Other forms of fivesome

plural

fivesomes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fivesome

What does fivesome mean?

fivesome means "the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fivesome?

fivesome has 3 syllables: fi-ve-some. The stress falls on "fi".

What is another word for fivesome?

Close synonyms include five, 5, V, cinque, quint. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fivesome a common word?

fivesome is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.